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As I researched the amazing life of Roy Wright I was constantly confronted with outrageous stories, and the further I dug the more bizarre they became. Just when I began to wonder if Roy was tampering with the truth, the incidents would get substantiated by independent sources that were with him at the time. Perhaps, from the different perspective of someone who was chasing Roy, or from an accomplice who was being chased with him. The stories were never contradicted. Even so, it was sometimes hard to convince myself that I was writing fact and not fiction. It’s that sort of life.

In writing the biography of Roy James Wright I have tried to give a ‘warts and all’ account of his remarkable life. In no way do I suggest the reader condone his life-style. I do, however, hope the book provides an insight into a way of life that existed in the Top End during this period.

I have made no apologies for his behaviour because there is no need to. He was only doing what a lot of other men of his ilk were doing in the Top End at that time – only Roy did things on a much grander scale. It must be realized that as far as ‘poaching’ barramundi was concerned, at the time Roy was involved it was considered by most Territorians as their right.